Category Archives: Kenward Elmslie

Make your own Joe Brainard collage (out of fragments he chose but never used)

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Andrew Epstein

Have you ever looked at a collage by an artist like Picasso or Joseph Cornell, Kurt Schwitters or Joe Brainard, and felt a powerful urge to immediately go make a collage yourself?  Perhaps there’s something about the tactile, playful, anyone-can-do-it premise … Continue reading →

Posted in Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, Joseph Cornell, Kenward Elmslie, Mark Ford, Ron Padgett, Tibor de Nagy Gallery | Leave a comment

Tom Clark (1941-2018), the New York School, and the Paris Review

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Andrew Epstein

  Very sad news in the poetry world: the poet Tom Clark died this week at the age of 77 after being struck by a car while walking across a street in Berkeley, California.  A prolific and controversial writer, Clark … Continue reading →

Posted in Alice Notley, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Anne Waldman, Barbara Guest, Bill Berkson, Charles Olson, Clark Coolidge, David Lehman, David Shapiro, Denise Levertov, Frank Lima, Frank O'Hara, Gerard Malanga, Harry Mathews, In Memoriam, Jack Kerouac, James Schuyler, Jim Carroll, Joe Brainard, Joe Ceravolo, John Ashbery, John Koethe, Kenneth Koch, Kenward Elmslie, Larry Eigner, Larry Fagin, Lewis Warsh, Lou Reed, Peter Schjeldahl, Philip Whalen, Poetry Project at St. Marks, Robert Creeley, Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark, Tony Towle, Uncategorized, Velvet Underground | 1 Comment

Roundup of Recent “New York School of Poetry” News and Links (4/2/18)

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Andrew Epstein

Here’s the latest roundup of recent links, new publications, and news related to the New York School of poets.  (For my most recent roundup, see here). — Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Karin Roffman’s biography of John Ashbery’s early years and reflects … Continue reading →

Posted in Aime Cesaire, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Book Review, Brian Glavey, Charles North, Criticism, Douglas Crase, Eileen Myles, Elizabeth BIshop, Interview, Jack Spicer, James Schuyler, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, John Koethe, John Yau, Kenward Elmslie, Kevin Killian, Music, NY School Influence, Patti Smith, Peter Gizzi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Roundup, Ted Berrigan, Uncategorized, Visual Art, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams | 3 Comments

“To ashbery,” “to kenneth,” and “to brainard”: Poets’ Names as Verbs

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Andrew Epstein

If you could turn the names of your friends, or your favorite poets, into verbs, what actions would they signify?  What would it mean, for instance, “to keats,” “to plath,” or “to ashbery”? In a playful 1969 letter to Bill Berkson, James Schuyler … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Berkson, James Schuyler, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Kenward Elmslie, Letters / Correspondence | 1 Comment

LeRoi and Frank: On the Friendship of Amiri Baraka and Frank O’Hara

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Andrew Epstein

In the weeks since Amiri Baraka passed away, there has been a flood of tributes and commentary on his work, his controversial career, and his immense legacy and importance. Many of them have discussed his “Beat” phase and touched on … Continue reading →

Posted in Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Beats, Frank O'Hara, Joe LeSueur, Kenward Elmslie, Vincent Warren | 2 Comments

10 Questions for Ron Padgett

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Andrew Epstein

To celebrate the publication next month of Ron Padgett’s Collected Poems, the Huffington Post has put up “‘Perpetual Delight’: 10 Questions for Poet Ron Padgett,” a brief interview with Padgett conducted by Travis Nichols. In his preface to the interview, Nichols writes … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Berkson, Interview, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Kenward Elmslie, Ron Padgett | Leave a comment

Memories of a “Child of the New York School”: Katherine Koch’s new essay

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Andrew Epstein

I was excited to see that Kenneth Koch’s daughter, Katherine Koch, has published an affecting memoir about her childhood in the journal Hanging Loose, which, fortunately, was just posted on Poetry Daily.  It’s a lovely, impressionistic piece about Koch’s father, … Continue reading →

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